Conference Co-sponsorsAlnus Ecological, AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Program, Balance Hydrologics, Cachuma Operation and Maintenance Board,

California Conservation Corps, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Department of Water Resources, California Trout - North Coast, CalTrans, East Bay Municipal Utility District, ESA, GHD, Green Diamond Resource Company,

Hanford Applied Restoration and Conservation, Humboldt Redwood Company, ICF International, Inter-Fluve, Lyme Redwood Forest Company, Marin Municipal Water District, McBain & Associates, Michael Love and Associates, Mother Earth Engineering, NOAA Fisheries, Northern California Water Association, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants,

Pacifi c States Marine Fisheries Commission, Pacifi c Watershed Associates, Redwood Forest Foundation and Usal Redwood Forest Company, Restoration Design Group, Rincon Consultants, Inc., Samara Restoration, Santa Clara Valley Water District, San Lorenzo Valley Water District, SHN Consulting Engineers and Geologists,

Solano County Water Agency, Sonoma County Water Agency, Stillwater Sciences, The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, Westervelt Ecological Services, Wildlife Conservation Board

36th Annual Salmonid Restoration ConferenceApril 11-14, 2018 at the Fortuna River Lodge� e Art and Science of Watershed Restoration

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Identifying Appropriate Site-Speci� c Methods and Target Criteria for Large Wood Restoration Workshop Coordinators: Anna Halligan and Elizabeth Mackey, Trout Unlimited

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Accelerated Recruitment: Cost-e� cient Restoration Techniques for Enhancing Instream Habitat in California Coho Streams Chris Blencowe and Ken Smith, Blencowe Watershed Management and Pacifi c Inland Inc.

30 Years in the Making: California Conservation Corps Instream Large Wood Restoration Techniques Brett Leonard, California Conservation Corps

Restoring Wood’s Essential Role in Controlling Channel Grade and Stability in Small Streams Michael Love, Michael Love and Associates Inc.

How to Keep Your Wood from Floating Downstream: Interactive Computations for Stability of Large Wood Structures Rachel Shea, Michael Love and Associates Inc.

Building Salmonid Habitat Complexity and Resiliency in Tributaries of the Lower Klamath River –Innovations and Lessons Learned Rocco Fiori, Fiori GeoSciences

Simple LWD Structures, Big Geomorphic Changes Marjorie Caisley, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Salmonids and Watershed Restoration: Focusing on Process-Based Design After 30 Years of Techniques Chris Moore, Pacifi c Watershed Associates, Inc.

Panel Discussion with all Presenters

Devising Regionally Protective Instream Flow Criteria for Unregulated California Coastal Streams Workshop Coordinators: William Trush, Ph.D., Co-Director HSU River Institute, Department of Environmental Science and Management, Humboldt State University and Darren Mierau, CalTrout

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E� ectiveness Monitoring of Instream Restoration Projects—Lessons Learned and Where Do We Go From Here Workshop Coordinators: Bob Pagliuco, NOAA Restoration Center, and Ross Taylor, Ross Taylor and Associates

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� e Pudding Creek BACI Experiment: A Paired Watershed Approach to E� ectiveness Monitoring Elizabeth Mackey, Trout Unlimited

A Study of Aquatic Habitat and Fish Behavioral Response to Enhanced Flows in a Russian River Tributary Gabe Rossi, UC Berkeley

Tools and Methods to Monitor the E� ectiveness of the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Project, Russian River Basin Neil Lassettre, Sonoma County Water Agency

Di� ering Responses of Natal and Non-natal Juvenile Coho Salmon to Restoration Actions in McGarvey Creek, a Tributary to the Lower Klamath River Jimmy Faukner, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program

Using Science to Guide Coho Restoration In the Middle Klamath River: If You Build it, � ey Will Come Toz Soto, Karuk Tribal Fisheries Program

Monitoring the Physical and Biological E� ects of Beaver Dam Analogues in the Klamath River Basin Michael Pollock, PhD, NOAA Fisheries

Annual, Seasonal, and Diurnal Variation in Fish Use of Constructed Slough Habitat in the Mattole River Estuary Nathan Queener, Mattole Salmon Group

� e Old Man and the SEE: Lessons Learned From 15 Years of Monitoring Coho Salmon Life History and Habitat Restoration Projects in the Stream-Estuary Ecotone Michael Wallace, CA Department of Fish and Wildlife

E� ectiveness Monitoring of Fish Passage Projects in CA Leah Mahan, NOAA Restoration Center, and Ross Taylor, Ross Taylor & Associates

Temporal Patterns and Environmental Correlates of Young-of-the-Year Coho Salmon Movement Into Non-Natal Seasonal Habitats Seth Ricker, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

April 11, Wednesday Workshops and Field Tours

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April 12, Thursday Workshops

Annual Meeting in the Coho Room, Membership Dinner and Film Screening in the Chinook Room6:30pm

Speaking of Science and Facilitating Community Engagement Workshop Workshop Coordinators: Janine Castro, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Miriam Volat, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

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Speaking of Science is focused on improving oral presentation skills for scientists and engineers. Participants will leave the workshop with an improved skill set, including a checklist to develop and deliver memorable presentations. The workshop is highly interactive and builds on the collective experience of the audience and the instructor.

• Audience, venue, organization, size, length• Main message, title slide, fi nal sentence• Audiovisuals, lights, sound, computer, timer,

pointers, remote, props• Tone, volume, infl ection, pace, pauses,

body languageFacilitating Community Engagement is focused on public engagement processes for scientists, engineers, and project managers involved in restoration projects and research that include multiple stakeholders and interactions with diverse parts of the community. Participants will leave the workshop with a clear design process for one-meeting engagements or longer processes, as well as a tool kit of mini-processes to use in your design.

• Designing and planning for your entire public engagement process

• Creating agendas that get results• Assessing, creating, and sustaining commitment

and communication• Simple facilitation skills and tools that make

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Using an Optimization Model to Select Fish Passage Barriers for Remediation Workshop Coordinators: Lisa DeBruyckere, California Fish Passage Forum and Ross Taylor, Ross Taylor and Associates

Chinook Room

FishXing OverviewRoss Taylor and Associates

The morning portion of the workshop is focused on an overview of both California Department of Fish and Wildlife Section IX Passage Assessment Methodology and FishXing software.

• An Overview of CDFW Section IX Passage Assessment Methodology

• Overview of FishXing Software• FishXing Group Exercises• Group presentations and Discussion

FishPass OverviewLisa DeBruyckere, CA Fish Passage Forum, Anne Elston and Brett Holycross, Pacifi c States Marine Fisheries Commission, Mike Mertens, EcoTrust

The afternoon portion of the workshop is intended to familiarize fi sh passage practitioners with FISHPass and its utility in optimizing fi sh passage barriers for remediation.

• Introduction to Decision Support Tools• Enhancing the Usability of FISHPass

via a User-Friendly Interface• The Limitations and Strengths of FISHPass• Running the FISHPass Model

Annual Meeting 5:30pm in Coho RoomMembership Dinner & Film Screening 6:30pm

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Plenary Session9am to noon, Chinook Room

Master of Ceremonies: Thomas Williams, PhD, NOAA Fisheries

Thinking Outside the Channel—Learning from History and Working with Nature to Restore Riverine-

Floodplain Connectivity, Colin Thorne, PhD, Nottingham University, UK

Evolutionary Enlightened Management Strategies for Conserving and Restoring Pacifi c Salmon and Trout

Stephanie Carlson, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Carlson Lab

Fish and Fires-Integrating Traditional and Western Knowledge Systems with Landscape Restoration

Strategies to Address, Adapt to, and Confront Large-scale Wildfi res in an Era of Climate ChangeFrank Kanawha Lake, PhD, U.S. Forest Service

Pacifi c Southwest Fire and Fuels Program

Revitalization in Native CountryWendy Poppy Ferris-George (Hupa/Karuk/Yurok/Chameriko), Klamath River Renewal Corporation

Plenary speaker Frank Lake is a poetic research ecologist and traditional knowledge enthusiast.

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Overview of Klamath River Dam Removal and Salmon Reintroduction to the Upper Klamath Basin Session Coordinator: Mike Belchik, Yurok Tribe

Chinook Room

Klamath River Dam Removal and the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) Mark Bransom, Executive Director, Klamath River Renewal Corporation

Strategies for Repopulating the Upper and Middle Klamath River with Salmon and Steelhead Following Dam Removal John Carlos Garza, PhD, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

� e Persistence and Characteristics of Chinook Salmon Migrations to the Upper Klamath River Prior to Exclusion by Dams John B. Hamilton, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Genetic Analyses of Contemporary and Ancient Samples Provide Insights into Restoring Upper Klamath Spring Chinook Tasha Q. Thompson, UC Davis

An Update on the Reintroduction Implementation Plan of Anadromous Fishes into the Oregon Portion of the Upper Klamath Basin Mark Hereford, Klamath Fisheries Reintroduction Planner, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; and Alex Gonyaw, Fisheries Biologist, Klamath Tribes

Restoring to Stage Zero, Recent Innovations in Restoration Science: Reports From the Field Session Coordinator: Brian Cluer, PhD, NOAA Fisheries

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Historical Basis for Restoring to Stage Zero Sean Baumgarten, San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center (SFEI-ASC)

Embracing Chaos, Stage Zero Experience from the Sierra Foothills Damion Ciotti and Jared McKee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Stage 0 Restoration Approach, Design, and Construction Paul Powers, U.S. Forest Service, Deschutes National Forest

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Five-mile Bell Restoration Project: A Stage 0 Restoration Case Study in Coastal Oregon, Paul Burns, Fisheries Biologist, U.S. Forest Service, Siuslaw National Forest

Design and Implementation of Secondary Channels in Dry Creek, Sonoma County, California Jason Q. White, River Scientist, ESA

Winter Habitat and Floodplain Enhancement in Lagunitas Creek—Phase 1 Project Construction Gregory Andrew, MS, Marin Municipal Water District

Stream� ow Enhancement: Planning, Science, Strategies and Lessons Learned Session Coordinator:Monty Schmitt, The Nature Conservancy

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A Coordinated Approach for Developing Statewide Environmental Flow Regulations in California Julie Zimmerman, The Nature Conservancy

Working Toward Instream Flow Enhancements: Modeling Hydrology and Water Use to Inform Policy Development in Critical Salmonid Streams Valerie Zimmer, State Water Board

Managing Diversions in Unregulated Streams Using a Modi� ed Percent-of-Flow Approach Darren Mierau, CalTrout

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Maximizing Incentives to Enhance Stream� ow in Coastal California: Integrating Instream Flow Dedications and with ESA Recovery Incentives Dan Wilson, NOAA Fisheries and Peter Kiel, JD, Ellison Schneider Harris & Donlan LLP

An Alternative Approach to Evaluating the Impact Of Small-Scale Stream� ow Improvement Projects on Intermittent Streams: A Case Study on Dutch Bill Creek Sarah Nossaman, CA Sea Grant

Collaborative Water Management: A Framework for Stakeholder-Led Flow Enhancement Projects at a Watershed Scale Monty Schmitt, The Nature Conservancy and Tasha McKee, Sanctuary Forest

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April 13, Friday Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

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Saturday Lunch in the Chinook Room and Outside12:15pm

April 14, Saturday Morning Concurrent SessionsEel River Ecology, Restoration Challenges, and Opportunities Session Coordinator: Darren Mierau, CalTrout, North Coast Director

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� e South Fork Eel River: Recovery Opportunities in one of the North Coast’s Premier Stronghold Watersheds Darren Mierau, CalTrout

� e Eel River Delta: Opportunities and Challenges to Restoring Critical Fisheries Habitat on a Working Landscape Michael Bowen, California State Coastal Conservancy

Research E� orts Supporting Instream Flow Planning: Hydrology Modeling, Data Collection, and Stream Classi� cation in the South Fork Eel River Basin Valerie Zimmer, State Water Board

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Revising Field Sampling Protocols to Enhance the Role of Geomorphic Classi� cationin Instream Flows Studies Colin Byrne, University of California at Davis, Watershed Sciences

� e Phenology of Food Webs in South Fork Eel River Tributaries: Implications for Water Management Gabriel Rossi, UC Berkeley, Department of Integrative Sciences

Removing the Eel River Dams and PG&E’s Potter Valley Project to Restore a Wild and Unregulated Eel River Watershed Scott Greacen, JD,Friends of the Eel River

Cool Matters: Emerging Stream Temperature Science Session Coordinator: Eli Asarian, Riverbend Sciences

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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Riparian Shade, Light, and Stream Temperature in Response to Riparian � inning in Redwood Headwater Streams David Roon, Oregon State University

Streams � at Cool Down as Summer Heats Up: � e E� ects of Seasonal Changes in Riverine Canopy on Water Temperature Ann Willis, University of California, Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences

Wild� re Smoke Reduces Summer River Water Temperatures, Potentially Bene� ting Cold-Water Fishes Frank Lake, PhD, U.S. Forest Service Pacifi c Southwest Research Station

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Potential E� ects of Climate Change on � ermally Suitable Habitat for Salmonids in the Salmon River, California Eli Asarian, Riverbend Sciences, and Jay Stallman, Stillwater Sciences

Predicting Temporally and Spatially Continuous Estimates of Stream Temperature in Non-Monitored Years Using Simple Covariates Jared Siegel, South Fork Research, Inc.

Freshwater Temperature Response to Five-year Drought in Two Trout-bearing Streams of Southern California Andre Sanchez, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains

Modeling Salmonid Habitat for Restoration Session Coordinator: James Graham, PhDHumboldt State University

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Flow, Form, and Function: Integrated Hydro-geomorphic Modeling Reveals Opportunities and Trade-o� s for River Restoration Belize Lane, PhD, Utah State University

Integrating Hydraulic Modeling-Based Simulations of Salmonid Habitat Suitability with Geomorphic, Hydrologic, and Fisheries Data for Restoration Prioritization, Russian River Watershed, CA, Jeremy Kobor, MS, PG, Senior Hydrologist, O’Connor Environmental

Increasing the Availability of Spawning Habitats through Building Base Flow Patterns as Found in Natural Flow Regimes Damon Goodman, U.S. FWS

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A Streamlined Modeling Approach Quantifying Existing Habitat Conditions and Guiding Restoration Brian Cluer, PhD, NOAA Fisheries

Modeling Stream Temperatures with the Inclusion of Irradiance Change Due to Forest Biomass Shifts Jonathan James Halama, PhD, ORISE Fellow with Environmental Protection Agency

What’s in a Number: Southern Steelhead Population Viability Criteria? Mark Capelli, PhD, Steelhead Recovery Coordinator, Southwest Fisheries Center, NOAA Fisheries

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Streamlined Permitting for Restoration Projects Session Coordinator: Matt Clifford, JD, Trout Unlimited

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Trinity River Restoration—Does Streamlining the Regulatory Process Allow for More E� ective Restoration? Brandt Gutermuth, Bureau of Reclamation, Trinity River Restoration Program

Dam Insights: Removal of Small Dams Via Programmatic Permitting Stacie Fejtek Smith, NOAA Restoration Center

Water Rights Permitting for Stream� ow Enhancement Projects in Coastal California—Existing Tools and the Need to Bring � em to Scale Matt Clifford, JD, Trout Unlimited

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Saving Taxpayer Dollars While Protecting Natural Resources: An Overview of the NOAA Restoration Center’s Programmatic Biological Opinions and Coastal Commission Consistency Determinations in CA Bob Pagliuco, Marine Habitat Restoration Specialist, NOAA Fisheries

Removing Barriers to Restoration: Are We Done Yet? Jonathan Warmerdam, Senior Environmental Scientist, North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board

Improving Restoration Permitting: A New Multi-agency Initiative to Advance Projects Statewide Erik Schmidt, Sustainable Conservation

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The SRF Conference culminates with our annual banquet including a cabaret, awards ceremony, wild salmon dinner,

and the lively dance band Kingfoot!

SRF, with the support of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, will host the 21st Annual Coho Confab at the beautiful Rock Creek Ranch on the South Fork of the Smith River. Th e pristine Smith River is the largest undammed river in California and is located in the northwest corner of the state in the Siskiyou Mountains. Field tours will include tours of restoration forestry practices, Redwood National Park projects, off -channel habitat,

fi sh passage projects, and large woody debris installations. Participants will have the opportunity to tour stream crossing replacements that range from fi sh ladders to roughened channels, to stream simulation culverts and bridges. We will off er workshops on underwater fi sh identifi cation, a river tour of beaver-constructed structures, and engineered log jams in Lower Klamath River tributaries.

21st Annual Coho Confab August 24-26, 2018 Smith River, CaliforniaAugust 24-26, 2018 Smith River, California

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Adapting Aging Infrastructure to Sustain Listed Salmonids Session Coordinator: Eric Ginney, Central Valley/Sierra/Cascade Director, ESA

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Changing Energy Markets, Changing Needs: Rethinking Hydropower Dams and Infrastructure Dave Steindorf, Special Projects Director, American Whitewater

New Ownership of the DeSabla Hydropower Project: Stakeholders Creating Regulatory Process from Scratch Chris Shutes, FERC Projects Director and Water Rights Advocate, California Sportfi shing Protection Alliance

Butte Creek DeSabla-Centerville Hydroelectric Project: Decommission or Retool? Salmon Want to Know! Allen Harthorn, Executive Director, Friends of Butte Creek

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� e Potter Valley Project: Fish Passage and Flow Opportunities Patrick Samuel, Bay Area Program Manager, California Trout

New Federal Interagency Guidance on Managing Infrastructure in the Riverine Environment Caroline Ubing, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Cultivating Ecological Solutions On Agricultural Lands Jacob Katz, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, CalTrout

Alluvial Fans and Salmonid Habitat: � e Forgotten and Challenging Landscape In-Between Session Coordinators: Michael Love, PE, Michael Love & Associates, Inc. and Jay Stallman, PG, Stillwater Sciences

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� e Bene� ts of Restoring Alluvial Fan Processes after a Century of Neglect Michael Love, Michael Love & Associates, Inc.

Alluvial Fan Construction in the Paci� c Northwest Paul Powers, U.S. Forest Service

Managing Fish Passage Across the Antelope Creek Alluvial Fan Jay Stallman, Stillwater Sciences

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Debris Basins in Southern Santa Barbara County; � eir History and Exciting Future Seth Shank and Andrew Raaf, Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District

Expect the Unexpected—Monitoring Geomorphic Changes and Evaluating Overall E� ectiveness in Highly Dynamic Alluvial Fan Environments Ian Mostrenko, Herrera Environmental Consultants

Salmonid Habitat Use of the Goodell Alluvial Fan: Would Removal of Anthropogenic Features Increase Fish Numbers? Rick Hartson, Upper Skagit Indian Tribe

Biological Responses: Fish Seeks River With Ample Flow and Bugs, Not Too Hot Session Coordinator: Eli Asarian, Riverbend Sciences

Chinook Room

Field-based � ermal Tolerance in Juvenile Salmonids as a Function of Food Availability: Implications for Recovery and Restoration Joshua Strange, Ph.D., Sweet River Sciences

Decreased Stream� ow Impacts Fish Movement and Energetics � rough Reductions to Invertebrate Drift Timothy Caldwell, University of Nevada, Reno

Primary and Secondary Production in Dammed and Undammed Reaches of the Eel River Lara Jansen, Environmental Science & Management, HSU

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Interannual Variability in the Timing of Sacramento Pikeminnow Migration in the South Fork Eel River Philip Georgakakos, UC Berkeley

� ermal Refuge for Salmonids at Tributary Con� uences in a Warming River Network Terrance Wang, UC Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Panel Discussion

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April 14, Saturday Afternoon Concurrent Sessions